{"id":8488,"date":"2007-11-11T23:49:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T04:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/11\/11\/veterans-day-memory-gratitude-resp"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:38","slug":"veterans-day-memory-gratitude-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/11\/11\/veterans-day-memory-gratitude-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"veterans day: memory, gratitude, responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pawn\" \"pawn Blawg Review<\/a><\/em> has posted its customary remembrance of Veterans Day (“Lest We Forget<\/a>,” Nov. 11, 2007) — “to thank those who served and honor those who gave so much on our behalf.” (And see, “Americans Gather to Mark Veterans Day<\/a>,” NPR, Nov. 11, 2007) It is also a time for our leaders to to acknowledge that the decision to send brave young men and women into the horrors of war must be made — if we truly respect the sacrifices of those who have gone before — as truly the last resort.<\/p>\n

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a handful of pawns
\nprotects the king –
\nVeterans Day
\n………………………… dagosan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"pawn Twenty-five years ago today the Vietnam Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. “Vietnam Memorial Turns 25<\/a> Thousands of Veterans Join in March to Mark the Anniversary Of the Wall’s Dedication and to Honor Those Named on It” (Washington Post<\/em>, Nov. 11, 2007) Deciding to oppose that war, as a young man in college, was an important milestone in my life. But feeling the tears roll down my cheeks the first time I visited the Vietnam Memorial, was just as important in shaping my understanding of our nation and myself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Remembrance Day \"cometB\" <\/span>
\n\u2014my insignificant wince
\nat the misdirected poppy pin<\/p>\n

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old folks\u2019 home
\nthe square of light
\ncrosses the room<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026………………………….\u2026\u2026.. by michael dylan welch<\/a>
\n\u201cRemembrance Day\u201d – The Heron\u2019s Nest<\/em> (Dec. 2005)
\n\u201cold folks\u2019 home\u201d – Open Window<\/a><\/em> [photo-haiku pairs]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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WWII
\npapa still
\nwon\u2019t talk about it<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"LissaTulipTapsS\" full-size haiga<\/a>, MagnaPoets<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

taps\u2019 last echo –
\nthe vietnam protestor
\nwipes a tear<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

…………………….. dagosan<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

remembrance day silence
\nno end to the north wind
\nthat bends the pines<\/p>\n

……………\u00a0 by matt morden – Morden Haiku<\/a><\/em> (Nov. 11, 2007)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\" Update<\/strong><\/em> (Nov. 12, 2007): While I was resting up from watching<\/em> hundreds of participants in yesterday’s 32nd Annual 15K Stockade-athon<\/a> run through my lovely Schenectady Historic Stockade<\/a> neighborhood Sunday morning [including former Stockader Frank Connors, who came from Vermont for the race], Eric Turkewitz of the New York Personal Injury Law<\/em><\/a> weblog was assembling a marathon-length version of Blawg Review<\/em> #134<\/a><\/strong> (Nov. 11, 2007), which he built around the theme of lawyers running the NYC Marathon. If Veterans Day Monday gives you a bit of spare time for blawg consumption, stroll over to Blawg Review<\/em> #134<\/a> <\/strong>and jog your brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blawg Review has posted its customary remembrance of Veterans Day (“Lest We Forget,” Nov. 11, 2007) — “to thank those who served and honor those who gave so much on our behalf.” (And see, “Americans Gather to Mark Veterans Day,” NPR, Nov. 11, 2007) It is also a time for our leaders to to acknowledge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[555,1414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu","category-qs-quickies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-2cU","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12414,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions\/12414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}